small steps to a blended learning classroom sun west 150316
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Small Steps to a
Blended Classroom
• Sun West School Division
• March 16, 2015
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Fist to Five
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3 – 2 – 1
3 – You know about blended learning.
2 – You want to learn about blended
learning in the next 90 minutes.
1 – You think may be a challenge with
blended learning.
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The
Power of
Starting
Small
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“At its most basic level, blended learning lets students fast-forward if they have already mastered a concept, pause if they need to digest something, or rewind and slow something down if they need to review. It provides a simple way for students to take different paths toward a common destination. It can free up teachers to become learning designers, mentors, facilitators, tutors, evaluators, and counselors to reach each student in ways never before possible.”
Blended Horn and Staker, p. 11
Sun West SWISI
Participants
How might a blended
classroom benefit
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Instructional Problems
Meeting the needs of a diverse group of students; some struggling and some need enrichment
Students dropping out of school Multi-grade classrooms Attendance issues Big class sizes = less small group instruction Lack of time to “get through curriculum” Need to narrow the digital divide and develop
21st Century Skills Providing "just in time" feedback on student
learning
Blended learning is any formaleducation program in which a student learns at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.
The student learns at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home.
The modalities along each students’ learning path within a course are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.
Hiring Technology
Blended learning introduces technology in a purposeful, strategic way, to help solve (or at best assist with) some of these problems. Michael Horn and Heather Stakercall this "hiring technology".
Technology can be "hired" to:• deliver content (enrich and support)• instant feedback• additional practice• collaborate and communicate with others• locate information• present learning in new ways
In what ways are you “hiring”
technology?
What problem is that helping you solve?
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Criteria for Blended Learning
formal education program
student learns at least in part through online learning
some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.
student learns at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home
modalities along each students’ learning path within a course are connected to provide an integrated learning experience
Choice in Pace or Path
Offering Student Choice in Pace Offering Student Choice in Path
speed at which student
moves through the
learning - faster for
some, slower for others
Instructional Videos
DLC
Pathway to learning
◦ Level 3, 4, 5
Levelled Pathways
◦ Essential understandings
◦ Bloom’s levels
Student Choice in Pace
Pace - speed at which student moves
through the learning
Faster for some, slower for others
Pace – Instructional Videos
Content
videos? Instructional Videos?
Or both?
Make your own videos?
“Hire” from others?
Or both?
Sun West DLC?
What should I use to
record? How much
time will it take?
Where should I
host? Moodle? You
Tube? BrainShark?
Pearson See-Its? Other?
How might instructional videos help me
solve one of my instructional problems?
What will I need to get started?
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Potential Roadblocks -
Perception
Potential Roadblocks -
Motivation
Potential Roadblock -
Independence
Blended – working in inner city schools in America
Grit and Growth
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Grit and Growth
http://tworeflectiveteachers.blogspot.ca/2014/10/discussing-growth-mindset-early-in-year.html
Classroom Culture
• Start with the “why”
• Open up discussions
• Digital citizenship skill development
• Goal setting, tracking progress (self-
assessment)
• Turn-taking
• Patience
• Grit
• Responsible Use of Technology
Pace – Provide Access to an
Online Course
Develop a
course?
Access a course?
Or both?
Do I have students in my classroom
who would benefit from accessing an
online DLC course? What role would
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Pace – Targeted Practice
Mathletics
Reading A-Z
Others – e.g. Wowzers
• Discuss the “why” of focused practice.
• Help students set personal goals for
success.
How might students be given choice in
the pace or path using these
types of software?
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Student Choice in Path
Path – ways in which students access
the learning
Basic
3
Comprehensive
4
Thorough
5
Essential to
understanding the
outcome
Highly desirable
in understanding
the outcome
Desirable in
understanding the
outcome
What all students
need to know
about the
outcome
Application,
synthesis,
stretching your
thinking
Identifying Essential
Understandings
◦ Understanding by Design – Wiggins,
McTighe
Using Bloom’s To Determine
Level
Choice in Path – ways in which
students access the learning
- video, teacher time
Is It Right for You?
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Enrolment Key: theblendinmind
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